Standardized testing
I hate standardized testing. They don't represent anything about a person or how good a student they are or will be. I know kids that know more than I ever will, yet get lower tests scores on the SAT and ACT and IQ tests. My grade point right now is 3.334. Thats the bare minimum to get into the college I want to. I do as little work as I can get away with, yet largly because of my test scores I'm getting a full ride to college. I don't think thats fair. There are kids that work their asses off to get their 4.333 GPA(the max at my school) and will have trouble getting into a good college because they got 27 on their ACT.
I realize that grade point can't be used for admissions because its subjective to a high school's difficulty, but standardized testing that tests nothing but your predispossed intelligence are weighed too heavily in my opinion.
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